This happened to me about a year ago. I was at work and glanced up at what i thought was jupiter in the southern sky. I've been into astronomy for
years and the position of it, magnitude, colour were all as jupiter is.
i carried on working a couple of minutes and then glanced up at it again. It was still there, as i expected it to be. But then it literally dissolved!
It simply faded to nothing in about two to three seconds, and that was that. Gone!
A perfectly cloudless sky. And it didn't reappear. It's got me stumped.

No seriously it's probably what I said just then, looking at a bright monitor causes the light to bleach the back of your retinas for a short while,
when you look outside or away from the screen your eyes haven't had time to resynthesise the rhodopsin and iodopsin that allow you to see

Iridium satellites are part of a fleet of satellites, build for worldwide wireless communications. The users directly contact with the handy one
of the satellites, i.e. one of the three Main Mission Antennas MMA (the three panels in the bottom of the image with a size of about 1x2m2). When you
happen to see the reflection of sunrays from these antennas or from the solar panels, you will stand in the limelight: The satellite lights up for a
few seconds will and produces an almost dazzling flare, that can even cast shadows.

You can use Heavens above to predict these, sometimes you even can get daytime flares.

First off, let me say hi to everyone on the board as this is my first post.

I have just found this original thread and felt I had to reply. I too, have had this phenomena, in fact I thought it was kind of fun at first. However
in all seriousness, not only is it white or bright streaks or flashes in the night sky that disappear, but I have also noticed that indoors or during
daylight hours I have thought I had seen the same effect but with black dots/streaks. The night lights are more common though.
And let me add that I am not always at a computer when I have seen this happening. For me, this started around December (2010). So I have not got a
clue what this is. The last eye test I had said 20/20 vision....

I have been having experiences almost exactly to some of these posted in this thread for 3 years now. In fact what lead me to this site today and to
join is because I did a google search for these experiences. My personal experiences seem to have gone on longer and advanced further than those
posted here.

When it began 3 years ago the lights were higher in the sky, as many of you here appear to be reporting. By the way, at times I may be on the computer
as many of us are in the evening, but many times I am nowhere near the computer, as you will see in my story. I don't think the computer is a factor,
at least not in my case.

I almost everynight sky watch, as I have since a child. When I noticed 3 years ago lights in the sky that seemed to be following me/observing
me/reacting to me. As I actively watched them, watched for them and took note of their actions, they would eventually change their tactics and
position.

After watching these star-like lights move back and forth in a specific space in the sky, from center at a 45 degree angle above my balcony to left
then right as I would watch them, always dimming their light as they moved and at times receiving tiny lights into them. The bigger star/planet-like
light would flash yellow orange red and green at times as well as just a warm light color, unlike the silvery/blue light of distant stars. The smaller
lights that would sometimes merge with them were a faint lavender glow. When I would specifically and obviously observe them they would just turn off
their light. This perplexed me because it became apparent eventually that they were reacting to my observation.

After a year and a half these seemed to just not be showing up anymore, but larger bright lights in the sky were visible all around my small town
which would move around every 20 minutes or so. I used to point them out to people when I realized no one ever looks at the sky to see these strange
things. Every person would say... huh, it must be our government. I found that strange. People are just unconcerned.

At that point I began to notice a light down low that would go back and forth behind 2 large trees about 50 yards away straight out in front of my
balcony; like another person said (like peekaboo). I began noticing every night as I slept and would then turn over in my bed I would slightly wake up
with my eyes opening and the light would be there shing brilliantly. On the nights I would fully wake and open my eyes fully to stare at it in
disbelief it will then dim to an orangish glow as it moved behind the tree and apparently turn off. I often caught this going on several times in a
night, but not every night. This light also had this same behavior when I would be up and busy in the room. Frequently I would be fully aware but not
look directly at it, covertly watching it as it watched me. When I would look directly at it, it would move behind the tree as the light dimmed to
off.

After about 8 months of that, it seemed to disappear. However, it took me some months to realize that the tiny bright lights I have been seeing during
the day now and sometimes at night, just in the 20 feet range off of my balcony, are probably the same thing. Maybe, but on occasion I have seen them
in my house too. The daylight appearances are interesting, the 2 previous forms were always at night. It is most often morning but may be anytime of
day and the tiny bright lights only show up in shadows, never where sun could be shining on something. They are intensely bright and tend to stay
bright for a couple of minutes with me looking directly at them before they fade to off. They have even shown up quite a few times within 2 to 3 feet
of my face and many times in the room with me. I have even had them follow me from room to room. I would liken them to the look of a fiber optic
light, but there is no apparent source.

I am very interested to hear further from the people here that have experienced these lights. At first I began to believe in extraterrestrials
visiting and observing us. Then I thought possibly military drones, now I feel it is possibly angels coming en masse to protect us from whatever
darkness everyone seems to feel is coming.

OH MY GOD. YES, YES, YES!!! I thought I was crazy. I always look up at the sky. I have a beagle, and I always take her for her evening walk because my
wife always takes her for her morning walk. I see them all the time. They look like shooting stars, except bright white, and they don't shoot. They
just blink out. On a few occasions I saw what I thought were satellites, then I'd start watching them, and they get brighter and then poof, gone.
Invisible.

Yes this has been happening to me for a long time now. Always outside at night, every time I go out to smoke or take the dogs out I always see a
bright light out of my side vision. It always disappears as soon as I turn to look at it. It has had me puzzled for months but from what I've been
reading here it seems to be quite common.

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